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Women's Right To Vote (+2)
Manitoba women became the first in Canada to win both the right to vote and to hold provincial office. Manitoba was followed by Saskatchewan on 14 March and Alberta on 19 April 1916. In these instances, the farm movement supported women’s suffrage as the proper course for a democracy. -
Borden Announces Conscription (-1)
Sir Robert Borden announced his decision in Parliament to implement Conscription. The imposition of conscription on reluctant French Canadians was a failure and bitterly divided the country along French-English lines. -
Halifax Explosion (-2)
At Halifax, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc collided with the Belgian relief ship Imo. The resulting explosion, the largest before the invention of the atomic bomb, killed more than 1,600 people and injured 9,000 in Canada's worst disaster. -
Spanish Influenza Epidemic (-2)
Possibly the most devastating epidemic in human history, which may have originated in Funston, Kansas, spread through Europe and the world, killing some 30 million people, including about 50 000 Canadians. The virus arrived with servicemen on board the ship Araguaya at Halifax. The first civilian outbreak in Canada occurred on September 8, 1918. -
U.S. Branch Plants appeared in Canada (0)
Branch plants were copies of American parent companies located in Canada. Canada couldn’t compete with the Americans, so they set up branch plants. The products were still "Made in Canada" so the companies could avoid paying taxes/tariffs at the border . Most branch plants were being built in Ontario and Quebec, also known as Industrial Canada. Instead of selling our own products, we set up U.S factories in Canada and sold their products. -
Dominion Elections Act (0)
The Dominion Elections Act enfranchised many of those who had been disenfranchised during the First World War, such as those originating from countries with which Canada had been at war. However, the Act stated that anyone who was disenfranchised by provincial legislation because of race would remain disenfranchised from the federal vote. This included persons of Chinese origin in Saskatchewan, and those of Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian origins in British Columbia. -
Discovery of Insulin (+2)
In the spring of 1922, medical student Charles Best and Dr. Frederick Banting of University of Toronto announced the discovery of insulin. Insulin would be the cure to preventing diabetes and controlling normal metabolism. They received the Nobel Prize for one of the most important discoveries in modern medical history. This was a very significant event in Canadian history because this was one of the biggest discoveries in medical history. -
Chanak Affair (+2)
In the early 1920's, Britain was occupying large portions of Western Turkey under the Treaty of Sevres, which was placed on Turkey after losing World War One. In October 1992, Britain asked Canada for assistance by sending Canadian troops to fight. Prime Minister Mackenzie King refused, saying only the Parliament could decide on sending troops. By the time the issue was debated in parliament, the war was over. This time Canada refused, showing how Britain no longer controls Canada. -
The Halibut Treaty (+1)
In March 1923, Canada and the United States negotiated a treaty about fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean . However, this time PM King insisted that Canada negotiates this treaty on their own. . PM King argued that the matter was only to concern Canada and the US, and did not affect Britain in any way .
This showed that Canada doesn't need to be dependent on Britain and can handle foreign affairs on their own. -
The King-Byng Crisis (+1)
In 1926, The King-Byng Affair was a Canadian constitutional crisis about the powers of a prime minister against the powers of a governor general . The prime minister argued that Byng was breaking the rules of a responsible government . At the next imperial conference, King was determined to clarify the role of the governor general. PM King was willing to make changes in the government so they could have more control over their nation than Britain.